In essence, product design starts with an idea, progresses to sketches of parts and assemblies and then to CAD workstation or assembly drawings. These drawings are then passed to manufacturing and assembling engineers who optimize the processes used to produce the final product. Frequently at this stage manufacturing and assembly problems are encountered with requests made for design changes. Sometimes these changes are large in number and can result in considerable delays in the final product release with a subsequent increase in product lifecycle costs. Print the ErgoDFMA Manual | 